“Involves using reverse psychology (and luck) to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes, and therefore induce the enemy to retreat.” (related: Potemkin village — “any construction (literal or figurative) built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is.”; vaporware — “a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled.”)
Source:
Gabriel Weinberg’s Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
